And what happens? Angst happens. Games and neurotic patternings with plastic rocks happen, and fights and collapses and Japanese flute-playing and interminable readjustments of the blocks to make architectural structures (from skyscraper to barricade, with graffiti) ha…

At times pure choreography rather than dance — figures roll, climb, flip into the lotus — Puz/zle is quite hardcore. The fusion of voices helps you reach a meditative state. But, in the final third, colour streams in — the scene where humans are chiselled into st…

Three white-clad women are choreographed into a sheeringly elegant engine of angled, pumping limbs, unlike anything I have seen before. Yet the work also has a mysterious emotional quality, especially in the dying fall of the final solo. Athletes is the hardest of the …

But the choice of words [ecstasy & death] says much more about the sexed-up direction ENB’s new helmswoman intends to take a company that has styled itself, ever since its association with Princess Diana, as “the people’s ballet”.